Bruce Van de Velde has resigned as athletics director at Louisiana Tech in Ruston, effective July 1.

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Van de Velde joined the Louisiana Tech athletics department in 2008 as deputy director of athletics and chief operating officer, and was promoted to athletics director in March 2010. He will remain with the university in a non-administrative, support capacity through the term of his current contract, which ends in February 2014.

Mary Kay Hungate, deputy athletics director, will serve as the interim athletics director until a replacement for Van de ...